When Police Minister Bheki Cele arrived at around 11am he was told that everything was ‘fine’ — except, of course, for the technical glitch that delayed voting.
The notorious Glebelands Hostel, in Umlazi, south of Durban, was relatively calm when the voting station opened at 7am on election day.
Glebelands is one of KZN’s political hotspots where there have been many killings in recent months and years. Burger said the hostel remains on a knife-edge, a place where violence could occur at a moment’s notice. Not far from the voting station a burst sewerage pipe forced residents and hawkers to jump over faeces.
The July looting has affected the Glebelands community. The nearby Mega City Mall was looted and gutted. But now, almost five months later, it has been renovated and is working almost optimally.
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